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Podcaster and Book Lover | Traci Thomas

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August 31, 2020

Best-selling author and coaching expert, Elena Aguilar, brings weekly tips, tools, and wisdom to educators with one goal: to help you thrive.

On this episode, Elena interview Traci Thomas, the host of the podcast The Stacks, about her love of nonfiction, her favorite and least favorite interviews, and her experience with imposter syndrome. Elena loves Traci’s podcast and wanted to know who the woman behind the mic was—and now she knows!

Show Notes

The Stacks podcast

Kiese Laymon

Breathe, Imani Perry

Blood in the Water

Jacqueline Woodson

Jason Reynolds

Ibram X. Kendi

Damaris B. Hill

The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead

Ta-Nehasi Coates

Jesmyn Ward

Roxane Gay

Still Processing podcast, Jenna Wortham and Wesley Morris

Ira Madison III

Jesus Land

A Thousand Lives

Emma Copley Eisenberg

Savage Appetites

Business Insider list of books

Thick, Tressie McMillan Cottom

The Four Agreements

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